A truck driver in Italy kicked out a group of migrant women who had entered his trailer

Italian police are investigating A truck driver who kicked a group of women out of his truck Migrants who boarded the trailer of a vehicle to enter France this Tuesday, near the border in Vettimiglia (north-west).

This scene was already recorded in a video has gone viral on social networks And this has caused shock because of the brutality of the images.

In them you can see the driver holding the loading strap by the steel end while forcing the migrants to get off the truck and then It hits them As an improvised whip.

Women of Eritrean nationality were welcomed by the organization Caritas in Vettimiglia According to local media reports, after further incidents at the “usual reception point” on Monday night they returned there and explained what had happened.

“They are images that impact, they hurt,” said the head of Caritas’ immigration sector in the region. Serena Regazzoniwho decried that “the lack of a welcoming camp remains an unfillable void.”

they too Political parties He criticised the photographs of the truck driver, who is already being investigated by police.

He spoke about “cruelty and dehumanization towards migrants.” Laura BoldriniDeputy of the Democratic Party (PD) and president of the Permanent Committee of the Chamber of Human Rights in the world.

For Boldrini, this is the “poisonous fruit” of hypocrisy that “represents migrants as a public enemy”, but “closes one or both eyes” when they are exploited because then “the enemy is convenient and functional for productivity.”

The senator from the Italia Viva party, for her part, said: “Every year thousands of people try to cross this border to seek asylum in France, many of them young women who could be our daughters and they are treated like the girls in that video.” Raffaella Paita

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